Last Call for 2019 RVA Environmental Film Festival Film Contest Entries

The ninth annual Richmond Environmental Film Festival (RVA EFF) will be held February 4 – 13 & Feb. 16, 2019.  The deadline is 11:59 pm on January 1, 2019.  The annual event will showcase films selected to raise awareness of environmental issues relative to all residents of our planet. Submission information for this sixth annual RVA EFF Virginia Environmental Film Contest and more information in general about the RVA EFF will be found at https://rvaeff.org/contest.

All Virginia filmmakers are encouraged to submit entries.  In the past, the contest has been open to only documentaries, but the criteria has widened to allow fiction and nonfiction entries that include environmental themes.

At the past 2018 festival, An Oyster’s Eye View of the Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program by Mr. Ronaldo Lopez, a Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center for Environmental Studies graduate, won the $1,000 grand prize, while Kenny Fletcher’s Menhaden: The Chesapeake’s Unsung Hero and Jess Jacklin’s Waterman received $100 runner up prizes.  The prize money awards were supplied by Sierra Club – Falls of the James Group. The Secret Sandwich Society, a popular restaurant located in the heart of Richmond, VA has stepped forward to sponsor the 2019  “Virginia Environmental Film Contest” award.  “We continue to be enthusiastic and delighted with the contest entries we receive.  Our festival followers have embraced the contest and it has become a powerful feature for the festival.  The contest also underlines our commitment to local filmmakers,” said the RVA EFF’s main contest organizer, Scott Burger.